We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: F5 Advanced WAF has an edge over Fortinet FortiWeb in this comparison. According to reviews, it has more advanced features than Fortinet FortiWeb. In addition, it received better marks in the ROI category.
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The support experience is better than average."
"There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you."
"It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"When it comes to blocking unknown threats and attacks, I would give it the highest score possible. We first started using AWS and its Web Application Firewalls. That was okay, but it was quite a manual process to keep it up to date, whereas Fortinet is always up to date, and the default rules or the modules that you can turn on are very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"The deployment side is quite complex."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"It's sometimes difficult to customize APIs with F5 Advanced WAF."
"I would say their graphical interface, the GUI. I don't like the GUI as much as before."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"I would like to see the Application Delivery Control (ADC) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) combined in one device."
"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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